Saturday, January 8, 2011

Stampendous! Blog Hop!!

Welcome to Stampendous! Rubber Stamps’ first official Blog Hop! We are thrilled to show you some really wonderful projects from BOTH the October 2010 Valentine, Easter, Spring Catalog (just uploaded to our website for your purchasing pleasure) and the January 2011 Catalog premiering at CHA at the end of this month (soon to be available in your local store for your wish list making pleasure). We’re so excited you can join us!

There will be four prizes drawn at random from the eligible hoppers... We’ll give away two of the Busy Bunnies set from the October Catalog and two flower sets from the January Catalog! All blog hoppers who comment on all the blogs will receive an email with a really cute bonus project and directions!!

SO, if you just ended up here because you LOVE me, head back and start at the Stampendous blog! If you arrived here from the blog of the fabulously fun and fantastically talented Rachel aka Gingerbread Gal you are right on track!

I cut out one of the images as a whole for my title on my page. The rest of the hearts I cut apart for page embellishments. I accented these with a bit of bling...some Dot Sparklers Class-a-Peel stickers in black.

Its finished off with some pattern paper (from KI Memories) and a lovely picture of my youngest daughter Rachael.

Next I have for you a card that I sent in for the BRAND new catalog that will be hitting local stamp stores in just a couple of weeks! The new sets will be released at CHA at the end of January. But I have a peek-a-loo for you of one of my new favorite Stampendous! sets...Agapanthus Thank You. (Please don't ask me to pronounce that for you...I so don't have a green thumb OR knowledge of flowers...just know when I like 'em!)

I love, love, love the way this card turned out! For the main panel I stamped the chunkiest image in the set (this is a Perfectly Clear set with multiple images and sentiments) in Versamark ink onto Glossy card stock then embossed it with White Embossing Powder. After that I used a Ranger Alcohol Ink blending tool and some Copic reinkers to create the background.

That panel and the mats behind it were cut out with Oval Nestabilties from Spellbinders. The main background is stamped with Black Memento ink and Crushed Olive Distress Ink with more pieces from this set. The border was created with a Fiskars border punch. The ribbon was purchased from Michael's.

OK, from here you get to head to the Uber talented Kimberly of For the Love of Paper! If you got lost along the way here's the hopping order:

Wow, what great eye candy! I LOVE those hearts and such beautiful contrast with the dark background. The new set looks totally fabulous! I'm a flower-a-holic when it comes to stamps, can't get enough!!

Your layout is so sweet - love the black and white photo with those colors! And your card is fabulous - I'm in love with the dandilion stamp! I just discovered your blog on this first Stampendous hop, and am now a follower. So nice to meet you. I love your creative style and am going to have fun looking over your archives and seeing your creativity. Thanks so much for sharing with us!

You did very well on the heart/saying stamp...that one was a hard one for me :) I love love love what you did with the aga..apa..whatever its called stamp....it is so watercolory just so soft and perty! Great job! have fun reading the hop messages ;)

Beautiful Pink scrapbook page Cyndi! I love seeing stamps used for scrapbooking! Your flower card... yeah, love these type of images by Stampendous! So pretty! So glad we don't have to have a green thumb to stamp!!! lol TFS!Pam Going Postal

Love both projects! Your choice of pink and black for the page layout is fantastic. The card is incredible. Soft, subtle, ... just amazing colors. Beautifully understated, but with lots of punch. Makes the images pop! Not sure how you accomplished that but it's really great.

Wow Cyndi - I love these projects! At first I thought the Hugs and Kisses was a card but I lover the whole layout and what a darling daughter! That card... what can I say? I love love love it! Going to have to start saving some stamp money! I became a follower of your blog because I so love your creative style :)

Oh, thank you for doing a scrapbook page. I just love how you did the hearts. Beautiful page. Ok, I never heard of that flower, but wow, it is pretty and I love the colors you chose for the card. Thanks for sharing.